Pencil-holder.



J. W. KYLE.

PEN GIL HOLDER. AIPPLIOATION FILEDV Nov. 7, 1913.

` v ArronNEl/S cnLUMBlA PLANOGRAPH C0., WASHINGTON, D. c.

JAMES WILBUR KYLE, 0F' MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE.

PENCIL-HOLDER.

` Specication of Letters Patent. Patented June 23, 1914,

Application led November 7, 1913. Serial No. 799,692.

To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES W. KYLE, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Memphis, in the county of Shelby and State of Tennessee, have invented a new and Improved Pencil-Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: to provide a device of the character named, simple, eficient and economical in construction; and to provide means for adapting .a holder so constructed to hold pencils or similar objects of dierent diameters.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a view showing a pencil supported upon a garment by means of a holder constructed and arranged in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a pencil-holder constructed in accordance with the present disclosure.

As shown in the drawings, a pencil, 8, when supported by the present holder, extends through a ring 9, and rests against a half-loop 10. Said ring andloop are connected by a spring wire section 11, which normally holds the half-loop 10 out of line with the axis of the ring 9. The ring 9 is made full-sized, to permit a pencil such as indicated by the numeral 8, to pass freely therethrough. The oiice of the half-loop 10 and spring wire section 11 is to cant the pencil within the ring 9, to frictionally engage the opposite sides of said ring, as shown best in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Normally, the section 11 holds the half-loo `10 sufciently removed to one side of t .e axis of the ring 9 to bind a small pencil within said rinw.

rlfhe ring 9, half-loop 1() and section 11 are supported on a garment of personal wear, by a spiral pin' 12, the sharpened point 13 of which is arranged to penetrate the cloth of Va garment when the body of the pin following thereafter is in eifect screwed through said cloth. The coil of the pin 12 is flat, to form a backing to prevent the withdrawal of the pin when the shank 14 extends through the cloth. The shank 14 of the pin 12 is concentric with the coil of said spring, and forms the support for the wrapping 15 of the section 11 and ring 9.V

The elements above mentioned are all constructed from a single piece of spring wire, one end of which is sharpened to form 'the pin-point 18, and the other ends of which is bent back upon itself to form a blunt end 16 on the half-loop 10.

In constructing the device, the wire is first bent upon itself to form the ring 9. One portion of the wire is then twisted over the other to form the wrapping 15. The portion contained within the wrapping 15 is the shank 14 of the attaching pin. The wrapping 15 is regulated to extend the section 11 at a decided angle to the plane of the ring 9. At the lower end of the section 11, the wire is bent to form the half-loop 10 to extend outward from said section 11 on the same side as the ring 9. The half-loop 10 is then completed by folding the wire back upon itself to-make the blunt end 16. In disposing the ring 9 and the half-loop l0, they are arranged so that the half-loop 10 may swing below said ring to a position coaxial therewith. The pin 12 is formed by bending the wire forming the shank 14 substantially as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings, said shank being concentric with the coil ofthe spring, while the point 13 is preferably advanced slightly into a position tangential with the co1 To employ the device, it is first mounted on the garment by inserting the point 13 in the cloth; then, pin 12 through the cloth, employing a screwing action therefor, the'body inserted within the cloth, and then adjusted until the shank 14 coincides with the perforation in the cloth. In this position, it will be found, the lower end of the section 11 rests against the garment, while the halfloop extends upward therefrom. If, in the normal position, the section 11 hangs vertical, it will be found that the ring 9 is slanted. When a pencil is now inserted into the ring 9, the operator holds the half-loop 10 while he moves the lower extension of the pencil below the ring 9 to the outside of and past the half-loop 10, until it can be placed within the hollow or inner curve of said halfloop 10. In thus moving the pencil, it will be seen, the operator has placed a torsional strain on the ring 9 and wrapping 15. The immediate result of this is to grip the pencil at three points, two of which are at opposite sides of the ring, and the third point, the half-loop 10.

It is evident that when it is desired to remove the pencil from the holder, this is readily accomplished by disengaging the by forcing the body of the..

of the pin is half-loop 10 from thepencil, When' the same Will swing freely to a position substantially coaxial with the ring 9 in its normal position, and can be lifted therefrom.

Claims:

1. A pencil holder, comprising a ring; a resilient member structurally united With said ring and extending therefrom in a plane perpendicular to the plane of said ring; a

10 member set out from said resilient member,

adapted to bear against the side of a pencil, when held Within and'extending below said ring; and a pin having a spiral. coil ,andV a sharpenedfpoint for insertion through the fabric of a arment of personal Wear.

2; A pencil holder formed from a single piece of spring Wire, shaped to comprise a tion disposed perpendicular thereto, adapted to be moved to coincide axlally With :said ring, the normalposition of said half-loop being out of coincidence with the aXis of said ring;

.In testimony whereof I have signedmy name to this specification in the presence of Y Y tivo subscribing Witnesses.

Y JAMES WILBUR`KYLE. Witnesses:

i BROOKS, N. MONAGHAN.

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